Poems on Several Occasions. . . With the life of Zoilus and his Remarks on Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice ...To which is prefixed, The Life of Dr. Parnell. Written by Dr. Goldsmith.

Dublin: Thomas Ewing, 1773.

Price: $500.00


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xxxvii, [i], , 254, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf gilt with the crest of Thomas Hutton on a black morocco label, title with red morocco label, joints slightly worn, rubbed, engraved portrait headpiece on first page of "Hesiod" some light water staining to the upper portion of the text, mostly of front and back, else light browning. A pleasant edition.

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With a two-page poem on the lower free endpaper captioned "Wrote by Dr. Parnell, tho' never printed." The poem consists of eleven quatrains, the first commencing "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man...."